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A Fresh Look at Competencies: Transforming Individuals'
Skills and Experience into Organizationally Relevant Results

Lynn Summers, PhD
NC Office of State Personnel

We place so much importance today on competencies — clusters of behaviors, knowledge, and motivations — because it is the competencies of individual members of an organization that enable the organization to execute its strategy. Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition 90 years ago offers an example of how competencies can work. His use of competencies was strictly implicit; companies today explicitly use them to translate the skills and experience that individuals bring with them into organizationally meaningful results.   read full paper >>

Date: Originally published 2003; revised 2004
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Developing Strategic HR: What Does it Take?

Gerry Fisher
NC Office of State Personnel

HR must transform itself by rethinking its cherished notions to arrive at new understandings and priorities based on the larger organizations' needs. HR must examine each assumption in the light of whether it helps to drive organizational results. This winnowing process will leave HR much stronger and much more valuable to the organization.   
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Date: March 2008

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How NOT to Hire Tiger Woods!

By Dr. John Sullivan
Dr John Sullivan and Associates

Your approach may prevent the hiring of game-changer candidates. A decade ago, Fast Company magazine labeled me the "Michael Jordan of Recruiting" because I had successfully designed corporate recruiting programs at the quality level needed to hire the then (and still) incredibly successful Michael Jordan.    read full paper >>

Date: 28-10-2007 16:00
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Leading in Turbulent Times Wielding the Double-Edged Sword: The Management of Paradox

Bob Rosen
Healthy Companies International

The world changed on September 11, 2001 — for individuals, organizations, and nations. We were painfully reminded of the uncertainty in our lives and of the fact that our borderless, multicultural world has positive and negative consequences. Now we find ourselves asking, "What kind of people do we want to be? What kind of businesses do we want to build? What kind of world do we want to live in?"   read full paper >>

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